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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.
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Self righteous rambling
- By Ben Stubbens on 21-02-17
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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Series: Incerto
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-01-08
- Language: English
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The Art of Uncertainty
- How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
- By: David Spiegelhalter
- Narrated by: David Spiegelhalter
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Life is uncertain. We are all the result of an unforeseen and unforeseeable sequence of small occurrences. But what underlies this fragile chain of events? Is it random or just complex? And what role does luck play in our lives? David Spiegelhalter has spent his career crunching data in order to help understand uncertainty and assess the chances of what might happen. In The Art of Uncertainty, he gives listeners a window onto how we can all do this better.
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The Art of Uncertainty
- How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
- Narrated by: David Spiegelhalter
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- By: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Nate Silver
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century.
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Interesting ideas recycled from better specialist books
- By MIK on 15-09-24
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- Narrated by: Nate Silver
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead and Live Without Barriers
- By: Jo Boaler
- Narrated by: Jo Boaler
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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When we learn, we change what we believe and how we interact with the world. This changes who we are as people and what we can achieve. Many people grow up being told they are ‘not a maths person’ or perhaps ‘not smart’. They come to believe their potential is limited. Now, however, the latest science has revealed that our identities are constantly in flux; when we learn new things, we can change our identities, increase our potential and broaden our capacity to receive new information.
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simply great
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-20
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead and Live Without Barriers
- Narrated by: Jo Boaler
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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Data Driven Business Transformation
- How Businesses Can Disrupt, Innovate and Stay Ahead of the Competition
- By: Peter Jackson, Caroline Carruthers
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 9 hrs
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Data Driven Business Transformation is the practical guide to harnessing your data to compete and thrive in today's dynamic marketplace. This essential resource provides the insight, knowledge and focus you require to transform your business - unlocking the power of data and revealing its hidden value. Delivering step-by-step instructions to every stage of data transformation, this book enables you to strengthen your data literacy and make effective data-driven decisions.
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A good one, might need to get a paper copy
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-24
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Data Driven Business Transformation
- How Businesses Can Disrupt, Innovate and Stay Ahead of the Competition
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 21-05-19
- Language: English
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Love Triangle
- The Life-Changing Magic of Trigonometry
- By: Matt Parker
- Narrated by: Matt Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle. Join Matt Parker, stand-up comedian and author of the first ever maths book to be a No. 1 bestseller, as he uncovers the secrets of trigonometry and shares extraordinary stories about the mathematicians, philosophers and engineers who dared to take triangles seriously.
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Great
- By Christopher Lanham on 06-09-24
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Love Triangle
- The Life-Changing Magic of Trigonometry
- Narrated by: Matt Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Automate This
- How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- By: Christopher Steiner
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills - and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These "bots" started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.
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Enlightening
- By mr Peter Mo on 19-10-17
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Automate This
- How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-09-12
- Language: English
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xGenius
- Expected Goals and the Science of Winning Football Matches
- By: James Tippett
- Narrated by: Simon Darwen
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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xGenius explores the interplay between analysis, tactics, and decision-making. It seeks to put the sport of football under the microscope with the aim of getting closer to the ultimate truth of what makes players, managers and teams successful. What, ultimately, wins football matches. Packed with examples from the Premier League and beyond, xGenius shows how xG and other performance analysis tools are helping answer previously unanswerable questions.
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A good overview
- By Danny Gee on 14-08-24
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xGenius
- Expected Goals and the Science of Winning Football Matches
- Narrated by: Simon Darwen
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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The Blackjack Life
- A Journey Through the Inner World of Card Counting, the Lessons of Teamwork, and the Clandestine Pursuit of Beating the Odds
- By: Nathaniel Tilton
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Nathaniel Tilton was leading an ordinary existence in his early30s as a financial advisor in Boston. Then, without a destination in mind, he set out to experience life in more meaningful ways. His path was forged when he met famed MIT blackjack team member Semyon Dukach, who inspired Nathaniel to become a world-class blackjack player.
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The Blackjack Life
- A Journey Through the Inner World of Card Counting, the Lessons of Teamwork, and the Clandestine Pursuit of Beating the Odds
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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The Prime Number Conspiracy
- The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
- By: Thomas Lin - editor, James Gleick - foreword
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs
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These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing listeners how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition. Listeners of The Prime Number Conspiracy are headed on "breathtaking intellectual journeys to the bleeding edge of discovery strapped to the narrative rocket of humanity's never-ending pursuit of knowledge," says Quanta editor-in-chief Thomas Lin.
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The Prime Number Conspiracy
- The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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Standard Deviations
- Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
- By: Gary Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing.
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Really interesting
- By RR on 27-05-20
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Standard Deviations
- Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-06-16
- Language: English
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Beyond Measure
- By: James Vincent
- Narrated by: James Vincent
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us; we could not experiment, learn, and co-operate. But why did this urge to measure flourish? And when did measurement become ubiquitous? It is an incredible story that spans hunter-gatherer societies to ancient Egyptians, the French Revolution to the relentless quantification of the 21st-century self. It is a tale that tracks humanity's search for dependable truths in a chaotic universe.
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A look at how measurements evolved
- By J. Drew on 14-04-23
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Beyond Measure
- Narrated by: James Vincent
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 31-05-22
- Language: English
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's all going to end. He considers parallel universes, the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life, what forms extraterrestrial life might take, and the likelihood of life on Earth being snuffed out by an asteroid.
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great book, spoiled by narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 05-09-17
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 18-10-16
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
- By: W. W. Rouse Ball
- Narrated by: Tony Shalhoub
- Length: 30 mins
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In his soft yet captivating voice, award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Monk) calmly tells the tale of how the ancient Greeks formalized the study of mathematics based on Phoenician teachings.
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Boring but a great sleep aid.
- By Ralph E. Bates on 12-08-24
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
- Narrated by: Tony Shalhoub
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 14-05-20
- Language: English
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Models of the Mind
- How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
- By: Grace Lindsay
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 13 hrs
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The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate - and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions, and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today without it.
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An informative, engaging and balanced overview
- By Don O'treply on 29-05-21
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Models of the Mind
- How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 04-05-21
- Language: English
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How Numbers Work
- Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Think of a number between one and 10. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions, and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?). And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like pi which never end. It literally never ends.
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Not for listening to
- By andrew on 24-10-18
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How Numbers Work
- Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-03-18
- Language: English
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The Doomsday Calculation
- How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
- By: William Poundstone
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes's formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's where things get interesting: Bayes's theorem can also be used to lay odds on the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, and on the biggest question of all: how long will humanity survive?
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The Doomsday Calculation
- How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Zero
- The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Charles Seife
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics.
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Very clever
- By elissaple on 01-02-23
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The Art of Statistics
- Learning from Data
- By: David Spiegelhalter
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs
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Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever. In The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter guides the listener through the essential principles we need in order to derive knowledge from data.
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The Art of Statistics
- Learning from Data
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- By: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable - continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
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Good biography but terrible narration
- By Cliff Moyce on 01-05-24
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-05-21
- Language: English
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